A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Chapter 511: Encountering He Ruizhu and learning that Liang Guowei is now a laughing stock

After the birthday banquet, Gui'er originally planned to work as an apprentice in a pharmacy every day, letting Manager Liu teach her medical skills when he was free, and then return to Nanjing to attend school when school started.

Because the pharmacy's business was so good, Manager Liu hired another clerk. After that, Gui'er spent more time accompanying Manager Zhang in the embroidery workshop, helping to grind medicine and receiving customers who came to the workshop to buy and sell embroidery pieces.

Although this pharmacy is located in an alley, it is an alley near the bustling center of Jiangcheng. Many business owners and shopkeepers nearby have become Shopkeeper Liu's guests. Shopkeeper Liu and Shopkeeper Zhang greet and see off guests with proper manners, so many nearby shopkeepers like to come to the pharmacy to sit, have a cup of tea, and chat about hot topics in the city when they have nothing to do.

Manager Liu and his colleagues took the opportunity to get a lot of inside information.

Even the incident where Gui'er was almost molested by Liang Guowei and shot him was brought up by someone.

However, they didn't know that the person involved was in this store. Shopkeepers Zhang and Liu knew it was Gui'er as soon as they heard it, but they remained calm on the surface and agreed with a smile.

As soon as the storyteller left, he hurriedly pulled Guier into the room and asked what was going on.

Gui Er had no choice but to say, "It's true that this happened, but it's been resolved. And Brother Xichen was there at the time. I think he knows everything, so there's no need to talk about it anymore."

Shopkeeper Zhang said worriedly, "I always say that girls become troublesome when they grow up. Look, you're being targeted now, right?"

Shopkeeper Liu said, "What's the point of saying this? Gui'er, you'd better be careful when you go out in the future. This Young Master Liang Guowei is a regular customer of Xiuchuntang. Now our shop also has girls from Xiuchuntang among its customers, and they often complain to us about those patrons. It is said that although Young Master Liang Guowei is quite generous, he is very mean and vindictive. If you say something that doesn't please him, he will raise his hand and hit you. Now you knocked off his ear, I think he will definitely bear a grudge."

Gui Er smiled and said, "Don't worry, he was drunk and had sex. When he was sober, he knew I was from the Marshal's Mansion and he wouldn't dare to do anything to me. Besides, we don't have any contact with each other on a daily basis."

That day, Gui'er came out of the pharmacy and was about to go back to the Marshal's Mansion. She had just reached the entrance of the alley and was about to get in the car.

"Gui'er, Gui'er."

Gui'er heard someone calling her, turned around and saw it was He Ruifang.

She asked curiously, "Why are you here?"

Guier smiled and said, "Do you remember when I was in school, I worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy? They moved here now, so I came to help out."

He Ruifang smiled and said, "I see. I just came out of the store and was about to go home. Let's go get some sesame paste. There's a dessert shop nearby that makes delicious sesame paste."

Guier readily agreed and said to Ah Cheng, "Brother Ah Cheng, let's go to a nearby dessert shop and sit down. Please wait for a moment."

The two of them sat down in the store. He Ruifang glanced at Ah Cheng outside and said in a low voice, "Is that rumor true?"

"What rumor?" Gui'er was a little confused.

"It was the youngest son of Mr. Liang, the owner of the largest pawn shop in the city. He went to the Marshal's Mansion to attend a banquet and dared to tease the Marshal's daughter. As a result, he was shot in the ear."

When Guier heard Yi Er, she thought of a cartoon she watched when she was a child and couldn't help laughing.

"That handsome man's daughter, is it really you? Anyway, I only know you and Sha Lili. Although Sha Lili is willful and capricious, she looks so delicate and delicate that she doesn't seem like someone who would do such a thing. On the contrary, you, who appear to be good-tempered, often spread incredible rumors."

Gui'er felt no need to lie to her, so she smiled and said, "I don't know what the rumors are, but a few days ago, this scoundrel behaved frivolously at my birthday party and even tried to make a move on me, but I warned him off. Is it really that serious that he only has one ear left?"

He Ruizhu smiled and said, "How would I know? I don't even know him. It's just that a customer who came to our store told me about it. Now the whole of Jiangcheng is telling jokes about him."

"Oh, how's business in your store?"

"It's not so bad. After we talked last time, I started taking care of the accounts. It's not much work anyway, so I just go and sit down every day and let people know I'm the boss's wife. Fortunately, it's going pretty smoothly. My father thought it was inconvenient for me as a woman at first, but now that he sees I can manage it, he doesn't say anything anymore. But my husband keeps urging me to have children, but I've decided to wait two years. She's still young now."

"That's good." Gui'er said, and suddenly she shuddered, "Then how did you do it?" She remembered that in the old society, there were no contraceptive methods, so many people who got pregnant had to give birth to the child.

"You don't know that? Oh, but that's true. You're not married, and I heard that the Shuai family's education for their daughters is quite traditional." He Ruizhu smiled and said, "Actually, they're in the imported goods cabinet at Wing On Department Store. They have contraceptive creams and diaphragms, but they're a bit expensive. I'll wait until my family's situation stabilizes before deciding. My younger siblings are still young. If something happens to me, who will take care of them?"

Gui'er nodded, looking at the old classmate in front of her who seemed much more mature than herself, and couldn't help feeling deeply emotional. It seemed that everyone around her was slowly moving towards their own path in life. Although she knew the future of this country, she didn't know what path she should take in the future.

Back at the Marshal's residence, today is the day to have dinner with the Marshal. Everyone gathered in the dining room in the main house, eating and chatting as usual.

After finishing the meal, they waited for the Marshal to come up as usual, rinsed their mouths, exchanged a few words, and then went their separate ways. But today, the Marshal walked straight up to Gui'er, touched her head, and said, "Last time, that Mr. Liang, before this, you two had already met, right?"

Although Gui Er didn't know why he asked that, she immediately became wary and said, "I've met him once, but we weren't close. It was when I went to the theater with Miss Tian. He was sitting in the next private room. He just greeted the wealthy ladies he knew, but he didn't speak to me."

The Marshal nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "He seems to like you quite a bit. Mr. Liang from the pawn shop even came to me personally and said that his son really likes you and wants to marry you as his first wife. Are you willing?"

Gui'er was so shocked that she didn't know what to say.

The fourth concubine beside him interrupted with a smile and said, "Master, Mr. Liang from the pawnshop, I heard that their family is quite good. However, although this is his favorite youngest son, he is a concubine's son. He has several older brothers and several younger siblings. Our family will not get any benefits when the time comes."